The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-11-26
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
ARTHUR LOCKWOOD. Esq.

Few, indeed, are the old settlers of La
Sale county who 40 not ers)nally know
Arthur Lockwood, Esq. and many Others
whose acquaintance with the veteran busl-
ness man and guardian of the law, Is OF
more recent date, like the Others have
learned TO defer 10 his ripe and safe judg-
ment, and to like him for his warm social
qualities. He was born In Poughkeepsie,
Duchess comfy, N. Y, In 1919. His father
was John Lockwood u member OF the so
clety of Friends" "Qlakers," as they
were derlsevely called. Hetoo was native
of Duchess county. Arthur, when lad,
Joined cousin of his on his mothers side,
In tracing the geneology of their respect
i've families. Arthur's mother was a
"quaker" too, an this mais him Friend
by blrth.right," title in that society
which can only follow and descend as an
honorable distinction to the child whose
parents both are "quakers."
Mrs John Lockwood's maiden nsNe was
Amie Arnold. Her mother was Lydia
Harris, of the famous Harris family of
Rhode Island, arrayed against which was
the other equally noted family of the
Spragues the two great houses OF that
little state, who, like the memorable
Guelphs and Ghebellen', and Shakespeare
Capulets aud Montagues, were at perpetual
war with each other Arthur run his IA.
theirs family record into England, covering
space of about two hundred years, while
his cousin, young Arnold, traced the Ar
mold family line down about an equal
chronological space into Ireland.
BoYHoOn DAYS.
Like all boys he had his time at play and
school; his father having been denied the
advantages of good education in his
youth, and being man of great energy
and exalted business qualities determined
to supply his children with as liberal an
education as money could obtain. He was
very successful merchant and became
rich and contributed largely to the local
schools. Poughkeepsie, midway between
Albany and New York, IS miles from Ell.
Their place, was in Arthur's boyhood days. a
thriving and romantic town OF five thousand
inhabitants on the Hudson river,-then as
now the Rhine of America. POughke5psie
had the honor of being temporary the
capital of the Empire state During the
,yar nc . "a rauolutinp uhiia Gan Eotao nd
Arnold were having their dispute at Alba.
ny and the Legislature had to: fly for their
lives. They fled to Kingston, across the
river near Poughkeepsie, but the British
soldiers followed them and burnt that town
and they had to set up house keeping for a
tune at Poughkeepsie, where they re-
NAMED till the successes of the colonists
cleared the way to the capital at Albany
Poughkipsie Is located on the Ei stern bank
of the Hudson river; was In 1880 place
of five or six thousand inhabitants The
Legislature of New York met there In IT'S, |
TO give assent to the articles of cOnfedera-
ton, and there also the national constitution |
was ratified. 1t has now population of
over 10000.
Arthur remembers seeing La Fayette In
1924 when that distinguished champion of
freedom was on his tour through tue Re.
public which he helped to found for our
people. The noble French General was
honored and feted everywhere by the
people, aud passed the proudest an hap
piest days of his eventful life while trav-
cling through the land, receiving the heat
freedom he had sacrificed and risked so
much. Arthur, yet so young and small in
stature that his nurse had to raise him In
ler arms to give him view of the veteran
nero, saw the chieftain standing bare head.
ID In his carriage, and heard the enthusi-
Istic citiz ,ns make the gekln ring with
heir cheers-a sight which so impressed
he lads youthful mind that he can now
ecall the scene as IL 1t we're of yesterdays
occurrence
TRAINING DAYS.
Mr. Lockwood gave US an amusing de.
scripton of the old Training days" and
more especially of the parsdes of the
'Fantastiques," or "ratterdemalian bri.
gade." "Tralnin's," as the Yankees called
HEM were the outgrowth of the wars of
the revolution and of 1879. Those conflicts
demonstrated that while raw recruits could
light and die In the last ditch, or charge
solid wall of bayonets In the hands OF
British regulars still there was vast ad.
vantage in being drilled In having skilled
officers who know how to command, and
soldiers who know how to perform the
varied evolutions OF battle, and that too, In
the face of the enemy and In the midst of
the fight. The law provided that each
able-bodied man of proper military age
should appear with musket and other
proper accoutrements two days year at
at the county seat or some central place
within the county to be drilled. One OF
Mr.. Lockwood's senior brothers, Arthurs